Voices of Innovation Speaker Series:
How Reading Comprehension Has Changed
While We Weren’t Looking
Dr. Donald Leu
University of Connecticut
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 4:00-6:00PM
Wachovia Innovation Hall at the Friday Institute
Dr. Leu will receive the Friday Medal before his presentation
and a Reception will follow
The rapid appearance of the Internet in all aspects of our life raises an essential question for the reading research community to consider: Are online reading comprehension and offline reading comprehension fully isomorphic? The presentation explores this question, using recent research to demonstrate how online reading comprehension differs in important dimensions from offline reading comprehension. It points out that initiatives such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), state standards, and state reading assessments fail to include the new literacies of online reading comprehension. Thus, students who need to be prepared the most at school for an online age of information, are precisely those who are being prepared the least. The talk will conclude by describing what we might do together in order to respond to the new literacies of online reading comprehension.
Dr. Donald Leu holds the John and Maria Neag Chair in Literacy and Technology at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. He has a joint appointment in the departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Psychology and directs the New Literacies Research Lab. Dr. Leu is an international authority on reading instruction. His research is defining the new skills and strategies required to read, write, and learn on the Internet and how best to prepare students for these new literacies that will define their future. He received his master's degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Also join faculty, staff and graduate students for a brown bag lunch discussion:
"A Conversation with Dr. Leu about New Literacies"
Friday, April 18, 2008 at 12:00PM
Collaboratory Commons at the Friday Institute
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